One in every eleven persons born in Mexico has gone to the U.S. The National Review reported that in 2014 $1.87 billion was spent on incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals….Now add hundreds of billions for welfare and remittances! MICHAEL BARGO, Jr…… for the AMERICAN THINKER.COM

The Mexican government says it will resist efforts by the US
government to force better cooperation between the two nations to halt illegal
immigrants coming into the US.

For far too long. Mexico has facilitated the flow of illegals
coming into the US both from Mexico itself and other Central American
countries. The Trump administration's new policies, announced by DHS Secretary
Kelly on Tuesday, would immediately return illegals caught at the border,
making them wait for their hearing in US immigration courts in Mexico rather
than being released to melt away into the interior of the United States.

But while complaining about the new policies, Mexico appears to be
preparing for the large influx of deportees.

"I want to say clearly and emphatically that the government
of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to
accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the
other,” Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray told reporters in Mexico City,
just ahead of meetings with Mr. Kelly and Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson.

“We will not accept it, because there’s no reason why we should,
and because it is not in the interests of Mexico,”
he said, according to the Reuters news agency.

Even as Mexican officials talked tough, they prepared for what could
be a massive influx of Mexicans who are either kicked out of the country or
flee the U.S.

The Social Development Ministry has for years had a program that
organized Mexicans who lived and worked outside their country and helped the
communities left behind. Officials said Wednesday that they would work on
reforms to “Programa 3 x 1 para Migrantes,” as it’s known, to prepare for the
return of many of those migrants.

Mexico used to account for the vast majority
of illegal immigrants entering the U.S., but that has tapered off as the
Mexican economy has improved and as American officials began to impose stiffer
consequences on migrants, raising the risks associated with trying to sneak in.

Now, the bigger problem is a surge of non-Mexicans from the
Western Hemisphere who enter Mexico then
travel north to reach the U.S.

Mexico’s role in facilitating their journey has
long been a source of controversy between the two countries.

Last year, American officials pointed to a surge in Haitians,
thousands of whom had been living in Brazil and Chile but started heading
north, saying they were enticed by lax Obama administration policies.

Mexico was stopping the migrants at its
southern border, then giving them temporary transit visas that lasted just long
enough for them to make their way to the U.S. border, where they attempted to
enter.

The White House insisted Wednesday that relations with Mexico remain
strong.

“We have a very healthy and robust relationship with the Mexican
government and Mexican officials. I think they would echo that same sentiment,”
press secretary Sean Spicer said. “I think the relationship with Mexico is
phenomenal right now, and I think there’s an unbelievable and robust dialogue
between the two nations.”

Since the average wait for a hearing before a US immigration judge
is close to two years, Mexico will have to care for
thousands of stateless people, many of whom will not be Mexican citizens, for a
considerable period of time. Many illegals who only recently arrived in the US
could return to their families to await the disposition of their case. But some
illegals have been in the US for many years, and it's an open question how the
Mexican government is going to be able to feed and house the deportees.

It is hoped that many recent arrivals from Central America -
especially unaccompanied children and families - will give up and return home.
But the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala have suggested they may stop
returning immigrants at their border, not allowing them back in. This would
present another problem for Mexico along its southern border.

No one can guess how many illegals will stay in Mexico and fight
for entry into the US. What seems clear is that the relationship between the
two countries is about to change dramatically. The US government is no longer
going to tolerate Mexico's blatant attempts to push illegal immigrants across
the southern border, making them America's problem.

“The lifetime costs of Social Security and Medicare
benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive amnesty
would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage Foundation expert Robert
Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained in advance by Breitbart
News.”

Chicago Sheriff Openly Defies Federal Immigration Order

The same day that DHSissued its new guidelinesregarding Immigration law enforcement, Tom Dart, the Sheriff of Cook County, IL; home of the City of Chicago, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the nation’s first Mayoral Sanctuary Policy, stated he has “no interest” in joining federal immigration efforts. As if county sheriffs across the nation can pick and choose which federal laws they will, and will not, follow.

This isnothing new for Chicago, home of the first official mayor-issued sanctuary policy. Since 1985 Chicago has openly defied federal Immigration law; an interesting trend since no other area of federal law is defied as aggressively as immigration. Cara Smith, the policy chief for Sheriff Tom Dart, stated “We have not been approached nor would we be interested in participating in this program.” Then added, “Our focus is and will remain on addressing violence in the city.” Smith’s statements were reported by the ChicagoTribune. This comment would be

The city of Chicago is entirely contained within Cook County. The county has authored some of the nation’s most outrageously illegal anti-immigration law policies. On September 30, 2003, the Cook County Commission’s Committee on Finance, led by Chairman Bill Daley (a brother of Mayor Daley) pass an ordinance declaring the Mexican “matricula consular” card a valid form of ID in Cook County. Then on March 15, 2006, Cook County Commissioner Roberto Maldonado introduced a resolution, which passed, resolving to fight HR 4437, a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate declaring illegal immigration a felony. Then onSept. 7, 2006Maldonado sponsored another resolution declaring Cook County a “sanctuary county” for immigrants. Conveniently leaving out the word “illegal.” before immigrants. Then onApril 30, 2007Maldonado sponsored a resolution to declare Cook County a “Fair and Equal County for Immigrants.”

“Fair and Equal County for Immigrants.”

BLOG: BUT LEGALS STILL GET THE TAX BILLS FOR THEIR WELFARE AND CRIME WAVE!

Bill Daley was Chairman of the Cook County Financial committee when they announced in 2004 that they would defy Federal law.

President Obama joined the rebellion against federal law when he sued Arizona over its state law,SB 1070, in 2012. TheChicago Public School systemhas also joined the movement to flout federal law: it issued memos to school principals not to allow immigration officials in schools without a warrant. It’s not surprising that given this defiance by its law enforcement and public school system, Hispanics in the city feel that they are above the law. Clearly, the battle lines have been drawn, and Chicago is the first big city to flout president Trump’s new effort to enforce existing immigration law, just as its mayor was the first to declare Chicago a sanctuary city.

The Democrat Party of the U.S. hasa long historyof manipulating “persons of color” going back two hundred years to the days of John Calhoun. In the 1820s, southern white slave owners began to rebel against the movement to abolish slavery, and warned that they would not respect the laws of new states which declared that slaves who traveled there would be free. This hostility toward the human rights of African Americans ultimately led to the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, but defiant Democrats refused to acknowledge equality for persons of color and fought their right to vote.

The newest group of “persons of color” is the Hispanic group. Before 1970 Hispanic numbers in the U.S. were so low that the 1970 Census did not even list “Hispanic” as an ethnic category. In 1979 Los Angeles began the movement to encourage the settlement of illegal immigrants to the city, and in 1985 Chicago became the first big cityto openly proclaim, through Executive Order 85-1 issued by its Mayor Harold Washington, that residents of the city

would be given city services and

employment opportunities regardless of

citizenship status.

Of course, the power “to establish a uniform rule of naturalization” is given by the Constitution only to Congress, not to Chicago or Cook County. But in the tradition of the manipulation of minorities Chicago and other big cities started up what I have called “Racism Version 2.0” by establishing themselves as sanctuary cities for Hispanic residents.

Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and other cities have absolutely no legal authority with regard to immigration law, yet they have all flouted Federal law and sought to carve out illegal immigrants as a group over which they have absolute control. And they have placed them in highly segregated neighborhoods, just as they have herded blacks into highly segregated areas, and with the promises

of benefits to single mothers, low income

housing, and food stamps, confining them to

lives of poverty and desperation ever since

the early 1930s.

This defiance was to be expected. Chicago has spawned defiance of federal immigration law for forty years. It will be interesting to see how President Trump reacts to this. Cook County’s Sheriff Dart has definitely drawn a line in the sand, and dared Trump to do anything about it. Should Trump refuse to act and allow Chicago to defy the rule of Federal law, then other sanctuary cities will follow.

Why Chicago promotes illegal immigration and shields immigrants from federal law enforcement is not difficult to understand. It’s all about political power and money. In the 1982 gubernatorial election an FBI investigation found that over 80,000 illegal aliensillegally voted. And today each person in the state of Illinois brings in $4,000 worth of Federal block grant money. This, in addition to the DACA money, public housing, WIC food stamp program, school lunch, ESL (English as a second language) and dozens of other programs. Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago are now all heavily dependent on the Hispanic illegal immigrant population as a source of local, state and federal benefit dollars. It’s not just Hispanics who are illegal but other nationalities as well: Chicago has a large recently arrived Polish immigrant population as well as those from southeastern Europe who came as refugees after the Bosnian war.

The CPS system is heavily dependent upon federal dollars for its operating expenses. Nevertheless, the CPS memo to principals clearly stated its position: “To be very clear, CPSdoes not provideassistance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the enforcement of federal civil immigration law.”

The Chicago Public School system has no legal authority to enforce, or deny enforcement, of Federal immigration law. Not since the Little Rock, Arkansas school system defied segregation orders in the 1950s have public schools open defied federal government law enforcement directives.

If Cook County Sheriff Dart can refuse to cooperate with federal law, why doesn’t he refuse to evict people from their homes, after their home is sold for nonpayment of property taxes? Wouldn’t that help those in need?

Among other issues, this proves that government, not big business, is behind the illegal immigration movement. Government, not big business, is openly defying Federal law enforcement DHS policy in Cook County, Illinois.

Herer's a tale of government waste involving all the usual
suspects; incompetence, indifference, and laziness.

The inspector general for the Social Security Administration
discovered that a billion dollars in benefits was paid to people who had
no social security numbers. The benefits were paid to "representative
payees" - people who were accepting benefit checks on behalf of another
because the beneficiary was unable to manage their social security payments by
themselves.

Seventeen percent of these representative payees were illegal
aliens, according to the audit.

Over the last decade, the agency paid $1 billion to 22,426 representative
payees who "did not have an SSN, and SSA had not followed its policy to
retain the paper application."

“Furthermore, unless it takes corrective action, we estimate SSA
will pay about $182.5 million in benefits, annually, to representative payees
who do not have an SSN or paper application supporting their selection,” the
inspector general said.

The inspector general also found the agency paid $853.1 million in
benefits since 2004 to individuals who had been terminated as representative
payees by the agency.

The inspector general said the errors occurred because the agency
did not keep paper applications supporting an individual’s case to receive
benefits on behalf of another and did not update its system if their status was
terminated.

Only six percent of representative payees had SSNs that were
properly recorded, based on the audit’s sample of 100 beneficiaries.

Government benefits are also going to illegal aliens through the
representative payee system. 17 percent of representative payees in the sample
did not have an SSN recorded because they were undocumented noncitizens, the
inspector general said.

Illegal aliens without SSNs are allowed to receive benefits from
the government when acting as representatives for their minor children.

In response to the audit, the SSA said it switched to a new
Electronic Representative Payee System last year, and transferring
representative payee information “may have resulted in applications showing as
terminated or not selected.”

The government defended the issuance of benefits to noncitizens
and persons without an SSN.

“Representative payees play a significant role in many
beneficiaries’ lives,” the SSA said. “We have approximately 5.7 million
representative payees managing annual benefits for approximately 8 million
beneficiaries. When appointing representative payees, we adhere to guidance in
the Social Security Act (the Act).”

“Specific to this audit, the Act permits us to appoint, in certain
circumstances, an undocumented alien, or applicant who resides outside the
United States without a Social Security number (SSN) to serve as payee,” the
agency said. “Specifically, the Act states we should verify a person’s SSN (or
employer identification number) in our investigation of the payee applicant.
However, the Act does not state that the applicant must have an SSN to serve as
a payee.”

The “absence of an SSN is not a criterion preventing an individual
from serving as payee,” the agency added.

How many of these checks end up in the "representative
payee's" bank accounts and not the actual beneficiary's? How many are
completely fraudulent, in that the beneficiary only exists on paper? It sounds
like a perfect scheme to rip off the Social Security system.

I can see where a husband or a son or daughter could act
responsibly as a representative payee, and perhaps another relative or close
friend. But the problem is significant enough that verification procedures must
be changed to reflect the reality that a hole has developed through which
fraudsters can bilk the taxpayer for large amounts of money.

Although the audit doesn't indicate where the fraud is most
prevelant, it is logical that the finger of blame is pointing once again at the
Social Security disability program - a prime target for fraudsters in the past.
Congress should take another look at this program and either eliminate it or
fix it.